14 best-selling fiction books like The Ruins Of The Abbey Of Fitz Martin by Anonymous

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The Ruins Of The Abbey Of Fitz Martin

By: Anonymous

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

The old man started back with increased surprise, exclaiming, 'And pray what is thy business with N…

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1. The Lady of the House of Love

By: Angela Carter

3.85

Format: 434 pages,

(based upon a radio play called "Vampirella") A virginal English soldier, traveling through Roma… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
"She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking."

-Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love

"She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. She has the mysterious solitude of amb…"

-Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love

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2. The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

3.18

Format: 125 pages, Paperback

First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
"My soul abhors a falsehood"

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"This life is but a pilgrimage."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."

-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto

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3. Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

By: William Wordsworth

3.96

Format: 24 pages, Leather Bound

Written by William Wordsworth after a walking tour with his sister near the Welsh Borders, Lines Co… read more

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"These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines / Of sportive wood run wild"

-William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

"For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity."

-William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

"...neither evil tongues, / Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, / Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all / The dreary intercourse of daily life, / Shall e'er prevail against us, or dis…"

-William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

"The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love, That had …"

-William Wordsworth, Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

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4. A Rose for Emily

By: William Faulkner

3.83

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the fami… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
"So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight."

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the s…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

"We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that whic…"

-William Faulkner, A Rose for Emily

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5. Armadale

By: John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins

3.94

Format: 721 pages, Paperback

When the elderly Allan Armadale makes a terrible confession on his death-bed, he has little idea of… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
"A judge, replied the Empress, is easy to be had, but to get an impartial judge, is a thing so difficult."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"...that much gold, and great store of riches makes them mad, insomuch as they endeavour to destroy each other..."

-John Sutherland, Armadale

"Allan found his place for the second time, and fell headlong into the bottomless abyss of the English Law. “Page 280,"

-John Sutherland, Armadale

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6. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

By: Frederick Douglass

4.11

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more

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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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7. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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  • fiction
"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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8. The Loney

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

"If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere be… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
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9. The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

3.24

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

This well-established series is now being updated with new scholarly introductions and attractive n… read more

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  • fiction
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10. Julius Caesar

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill

3.70

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more

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  • fiction
"Et tu, Brute?"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Beware the ides of March."

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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11. Henry V

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more

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  • fiction

12. The Outsider

By: H.P. Lovecraft

4.10

Format: 290 pages,

"The Outsider" is a short story by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between March an… read more

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13. The Little Stranger

By: Sarah Waters

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Several sleepless nights are guaranteed."--Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly One postwar summer i… read more

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14. Knight's Tale

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

2.00

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

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15. Northanger Abbey

By: Jane Austen , Alfred J. MacAdam

3.85

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A wonderfully entertaining coming-of-age story, Northanger Abbey is often referred to as Jane Auste… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
"I have no talent for certainty."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"Every moment has its pleasures and its hope."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

"I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

16. The Haunting of Hill House

By: Shirley Jackson , None

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959,… read more

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17. Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure

By: John Cleland

2.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

Fanny Hill, also known as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, has been a notorious novel since it first… read more

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18. The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave Narrative

By: Mary Prince

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Born in Bermuda to a house slave in 1788, Mary Prince suffered the first of many soul-shattering ex… read more

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19. A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.36

Format: 96 pages,

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20. The Vampire of Kaldenstein

By: Frederick Cowles

3.00

Format: 1118 pages,

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21. The Fall of the House of Usher

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.87

Format: 36 pages, Paperback

Take the plunge. Dive into this classic from the singular mind of Edgar Allan Poe, who is widely re… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
"[Son] cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu'on le touche il résonne. — De Béranger "

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"A cadaverousness of complexion; an eye large, liquid and very luminous...finely molded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"It was, perhaps, the narrow limits to which he thus confined himself upon the guitar, which gave birth, in great measure, to the fantastic character of his performances."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

"Er is geen twijfel mogelijk dat mijn bewustzijn van de snelle groei van mijn bijgeloof (want waarom zou ik het niet zo noemen?) de groei alleen maar scheen te versnellen. Dat is, zoals ik al lange ti…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

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22. Carmilla

By: J. Sheridan Le Fanu

3.86

Format: 108 pages, Paperback

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction
"Love will have its sacrifices. No sacrifice without blood."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"You are mine, you shall be mine, you and I are one for ever."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

"Darling, darling. I live in you, and you would die for me. I love you so."

-J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

23. The Monk

By: None

4.71

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid, this is a violent tale of ambition, murde… read more

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24. The Speckled Band (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #8)

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The Adventure of the Speckled Band is one of 56 short stories & 4 novels written by Arthur Conan Do… read more

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25. General Prologue To The Canterbury Tales

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

3.87

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

Presents the text of Chaucer's General Prologue, from the Riverside text with support on the portra… read more

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26. Othello

By: William Shakespeare

4.48

Format: None pages,

In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more

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27. The Island of Dr. Moreau

By: H.G. Wells

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettab… read more

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28. The Ruins Of The Abbey Of Fitz Martin

By: Anonymous

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

The old man started back with increased surprise, exclaiming, 'And pray what is thy business with N… read more

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  • gothic
  • fiction

29. Miss de Mannering of Asham

By: F.M. Mayor

3.71

Format: None pages, None

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30. Sir Bertrand, A Fragment

By: Anna Laetitia Barbauld

3.15

Format: 4 pages, ebook

None read more

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  • gothic

31. The Poisoner of Montremos

By: Richard Cumberland

3.42

Format: None pages, None

Gothic Tale about the murder about a young woman from the late 18th century, also featured in a num… read more

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The Lady of the House of Love

Angela Carter

3.85

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Horace Walpole

3.18

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William Faulkner

3.83

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John Sutherland , Wilkie Collins

3.94

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Mrs. Henry Wood , Elisabeth Jay

3.73

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3.94

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